Episode Seventeen: Orientation

In which – [GARBLED]. Featuring: the linear nature of time, an unfortunate telephone conversation, a displeased rescuee, the facts of the matter.

Episode description: The Martin house's new occupant assesses her situation.

Episode Overview
Mabel takes over her narrative.

Trigger Warnings

 * Screaming, unreality, starvation, eating noises / misophonia triggering content, loud noises, fighting.

Episode Summary
Mabel arrives back in the house after Anna swapped their places in the previous episode. Mabel speaks to Anna (through her phone) about the struggles she's facing adjusting to the 'real' world. She mentions that time works differently under the hill and that she cannot use her stubbornness or other matters of willpower to get what she wants up here. She then discusses how the house is rearranging itself around her, specifically putting the landline phone on the dining room table so she can hear it ringing. She then gets very, very mad at Anna after picking up the phone to find Anna's friend (a Miss Reyes) asking after her. She says that she looked but never found Anna and then explains that she's most likely being forced to sing for the Underhill in order to survive. She ends the episode asking Anna who she truly is and then saying that it doesn't matter-- she loves her no matter who she is.

Continuity
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 * "I looked and looked but never found you" is said first to Anna by Mabel in Anna's dream in Asterion.
 * Time is a longstanding motif in the show, as is rot.
 * Anna can be heard singing in Bull in the Maze.

Trivia
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 * Mabel calls Anna's friend again later on-- no word on if she'll be recurring or not yet.
 * This is the first episode where Mabel's voice actress is credited as Mabel Martin, rather than having her name censored.
 * During this season, the Mabel creators ran a competition. A piece of code was hidden in the transcript documents of each episode by highlighting a single world from each in blue. The piece of code hidden in the transcript from this episode is "two." The code was solved at the end of the season (see the trivia section of Coalescence).